Drafting of the United States Constitution and the self-interest of the founding fathers

The drafting of the United States Constitution displayed the concept of self-interest and was shaped by the founding father’s personal views about economic affairs, by their distrust of a purely democratic rule, and by their belief that man’s Hobbesian nature could only be neutralized with a balanced government.
When the Constitution of the United States was drafted, the founding fathers secured their own economic interests which revolved around their view that liberty was defined as the right to own property, not as democracy. Since the founding fathers were all part of an elite group of wealthy landowners, they made it one of their main priorities to secure this significant and surely powerful status in colonial society. They were aware that the right to own land was a key role to their success, and that to remain landowners their rights needed to be protected. With prior laws from England that caused disturbance in America such as the Proclamation of 1763, the founding fathers...